gittuf is a platform-agnostic Git security system. Prior to 0.14.0, an attacker with push access to gittuf's Reference State Log (RSL) can roll back the current policy to any previous policy trusted by the current set of root keys. gittuf determines the policy to load by inspecting the RSL. Except for the very first policy (which is automatically trusted given gittuf's TOFU model, or verified against manually specified keys), whenever an RSL entry that points to a new policy is encountered, gittuf validates that this policy is trusted. This is done by checking that the new policy’s root metadata is signed by the required threshold of the current policy's root keys. Because of this, an attacker with push access to the RSL may create a new entry that references an old policy (that is trusted by the most recent policy's set of root keys), thereby rolling back gittuf's policy to the attacker's chosen state. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.14.0.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - gittuf is a platform-agnostic Git security system. Prior to 0.14.0, an attacker with push access to     gittuf's Reference State Log (RSL) can roll back the current policy to any previous policy trusted by the     current set of root keys. gittuf determines the policy to load by inspecting the RSL. Except for the very     first policy (which is automatically trusted given gittuf's TOFU model, or verified against manually     specified keys), whenever an RSL entry that points to a new policy is encountered, gittuf validates that     this policy is trusted. This is done by checking that the new policy's root metadata is signed by the     required threshold of the current policy's root keys. Because of this, an attacker with push access to the     RSL may create a new entry that references an old policy (that is trusted by the most recent policy's set     of root keys), thereby rolling back gittuf's policy to the attacker's chosen state. This vulnerability is     fixed in 0.14.0. (CVE-2026-44544)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - gittuf is a platform-agnostic Git security system. Prior to 0.14.0, an attacker with push access to
    gittuf's Reference State Log (RSL) can roll back the current policy to any previous policy trusted by the
    current set of root keys. gittuf determines the policy to load by inspecting the RSL. Except for the very
    first policy (which is automatically trusted given gittuf's TOFU model, or verified against manually
    specified keys), whenever an RSL entry that points to a new policy is encountered, gittuf validates that
    this policy is trusted. This is done by checking that the new policy’s root metadata is signed by the
    required threshold of the current policy's root keys. Because of this, an attacker with push access to the
    RSL may create a new entry that references an old policy (that is trusted by the most recent policy's set
    of root keys), thereby rolling back gittuf's policy to the attacker's chosen state. This vulnerability is
    fixed in 0.14.0. (CVE-2026-44544)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
314792	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-44544	Nessus	Misc.	medium
441452	SCA: security update for github.com/gittuf/gittuf (GHSA-vxvc-cg7j-rwqj)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
441452	SCA: security update for github.com/gittuf/gittuf (GHSA-vxvc-cg7j-rwqj)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium

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CVE-2026-44544

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